The Highways Agency has just announced that, as part of its Pinch Point Programme to help relieve very congested junctions and intersections, Wilby Way Roundabout on the A45 to the South West of Wellingborough will receive £3.2m for a substantial improvement scheme.
This will reduce congestion by widening part of the roundabout and approach roads and installing traffic signals. It will support a number of significant employment and housing sites in the vicinity of the junction with the potential to create 5,600 jobs and 3,000 homes by 2020.
The project is scheduled to start and finish in 2013.
The Wellingborough Chamber of Commerce wholeheartedly supports this project and has been campaigning for improved infrastructure for the town especially on the A45 for a considerable time.
Alan Piggott Chamber President stated ‘This roundabout has seen increasing congestion over many years and it is not only a burden on local businesses due to lost time for employees and freight it has also become a problem for surrounding villages as people try to avoid the junction at all costs’
‘This announcement by the Highways Agency is great news and it should provide greater capacity on the road network to allow some of the development that has been stalled around Wellingborough to now come forward’
Further details can be obtained at http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/press-releases/170m-road-boost-for-local-economies/